Saved for Saturday: A Mugiversary
by Kyle Lobner on Feb 7, 2009 7:00 AM CST
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PrintOne year ago today, I posted a FanPost titled Thursday morning reads. Response to it was good so I wrote another one the next day, and most weekdays after that. I held a vote to determine a name for it, rejected the leading vote-getter and named it myself, started writing it for the front page, and the rest is history.
At that point, I was reading about 100 blogs and sites daily, and I used to get up early, go to the gym, come home, shower, write the Mug and be to work by 10. Today, I read 265 blogs and sites every morning. I get up earlier, skip the gym, go straight to my desk, and I don't even get to the shower before 10 most days.
I don't know if I ever expected the Mug to become what I'm known for, but I don't know what I'd do without it now. I look forward every day to the time I get to spend gathering Brewer notes, writing terrible jokes and hopefully providing the starting point for an interesting, informed conversation on the state of the Brewers. Of course, it wouldn't be a conversation if I was just talking to myself, so I also wanted to take a minute to say thank you to everyone who reads the Mug, comments on it and makes it fun.
When I was 14, I started writing a weekly Fan's View column for SportingNews.com.. At 15, I managed a Brewer message board at (now defunct) MLBfans.net. I wrote for a couple of other websites after that, before launching my own baseball site, Snowbaseball.com (also now defunct). I also had an aborted project at Baseball Think Factory a few years ago. All of those past efforts have one thing in common: They all lasted less than a year. The difference between all of those gigs and this one is the community here at BCB. A year after I started the Mug, it's still fun and it's still worthwhile. So thank you to all of you for reading and keeping me entertained, and I look forward to starting Year 2 of the Mug on Monday morning.
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PROST!
Thanks for all the work you put into the Mug. I think I speak for just about everyone when I say it is greatly appreciated.
Thanks KL!
This is the first site I come to and the mugs are the first thing I read when I have free time. I need my daily fix of Brewers/Baseball news.
Eric Gagne DL time: May 23-June 29 Brewers record in that span: 20-9
Thank You
I lurk more than I contribute lately, but thanks a lot for the Brewers/Baseball news.
"My plan is my plan," Yost said.
Thanks KL
This is the first website I go to every weekday morning. I’m addicted, and the mug is a big part of it.
+ 6
This is also the first thing I read everyday. Thanks for all your work….
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Feb 7, 2009 10:32 AM CST reply actions
KL
Congrats on your anniversary. And what kind of job do you have where you can start at 10?!? I’m going to kill my guidance counselor.
I just sit back and root for the taser
I was working as an organizer when I started doing this.
Which was nice, because I could somewhat set my own schedule, but I was also on the road a lot, so my 40 hour weeks were usually made out of 4’s and 16’s instead of 8’s.
He’s not the worst pitcher ever, just the worst good pitcher.
So you're second in google results for "Frosty Mug"
New logo?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read on different sites from different people (not just Brewer fans) that The Frosty Mug is an excellent wrapup of all baseball news, injury report, stupid jokes, puns, etc, not just the daily Brewer news. The reason this site is so excellent is we have a nice variety. You read Evil BCB or any other site where one guy entirely monopolizes the front page, all of the stories have the same ideas and style. Here we have the daily news/discussion, some other daily features and projects, and all of the writers can contribute different types of stories and analysis: pitchfx, recondite stats, sabermetrics and stat analysis, general opinions and analyses of concepts and ideas. And we get all the breaking news.
Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.
Congrats and thanks
This site is the first place I go to when I get a chance and the Mug is the first thing I read. Keep up the great work ’cause its all really appreciated!
"my goodness"
yes, thanks KL.
Reading the Frosty Mug is just as part of my morning routine as brushing my teeth. Thanks.
Named it yourself, did you???
http://www.brewcrewball.com/2008/2/19/105013/053
No love. No love at all.
Seriously though, I haven’t commented around here in a long time, but I still read the column frequently. Keep up the good work.
"You guys know me. I take a long time to analyze things."
- Ned Yost
by SunglassesAtNight on Feb 7, 2009 2:42 PM CST reply actions
"Named it myself" may not have been the correct term.
What I meant is that I rejected “Daily Brew,” which won the voting, and took my favorite option. And thanks for providing it!
He’s not the worst pitcher ever, just the worst good pitcher.
Thanks!
Just wanted to drop another note of thanks. I check the Mug before class every single day, not sure what I did before it. Amazing work!
Thanks so much
I got BCB bookmarked and the Mug is the first thing I read every morning.
"She might have been the one that got away.....who am I kidding? They all got away!"
Just bookmarked?!?!?!11
It’s the homepage on my laptop. :)
Scored three times and detonated an indisputable in four visits to the batting box.
it's my second tab
it goes porn, brewers email ;)
"She might have been the one that got away.....who am I kidding? They all got away!"
Thank Goodness
As a crazed Brewer fan since the early 80’s I have waited patiently (and with frequent insobriety) for #1: the Crew to get good again and #2: something beyond the JS (and What’s Brewing?) to fill my Brewer needs…to get them both within a calendar year is a quite a haul.
keep doing what you do!
Thanks KL
I’m a big fan of the mug. Like many here this is the first site I go to in the morning. If anybody’s got Google Chrome, how high up does BCB rank on their Most Visited? It’s in the top 5 on all my computers…
I use GoogleChrome
BCB is in my top 3, and it is mostly the Mug’s fault.
Thanks KL
the mug is awesome and always the first place i come for my brewer/baseball news, keep up the great work, ill raise a frosty mug to you and year 2
Thanks
I, like many others here, have missed out on many a promotion and/or bonus at work, due to the hours wasted away at BCB, starting each day with the Mug. It’s a great read every weekday, thanks again!
Personally, I think we got hosed on that one! - Harry Doyle
Sometimes
There are not many comments after clearly a lot of work went in, and I feel like I should say thanks everyday…
But also my first bookmark and read it every morning… I am sure my boss doesn’t appreciate it, but I LOVE IT!
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
No worries
When no one comments on the Mug, I just assume I was right on every count. :-)
He’s not the worst pitcher ever, just the worst good pitcher.
That is generally the case
Even if someone does comment =P
"If loving CC is wrong I do not want to be right"
"If lovin’ Braun is wrong, I want to be a repeat offender"
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